A type of information that that can make an organism change its behavior.
What is a stimulus? (or stimuli, pl.)
100
Spiders know how to build webs perfectly because of this type of behavior.
What is instinct or innate behavior?
100
When a stimulus causes an animal to change its behavior, this occurs.
What is "learning"?
100
These chemicals are used by various species to relay messages or information through the sense of smell.
What are pheremones?
100
A newborn baby cries in response to a loud noise.
What is innate?
200
Animals with more successful behavior tend to survive and have more of this.
What is offspring?
200
This type of behavior is illustrated by a goose going through the motions of rolling an egg back into the nest even if the egg is taken away.
What is a "fixed action pattern" or FAP?
200
B. F. Skinner studied this type of learning by using animals in carefully designed "boxes".
Who is operant conditioning.
200
This type of learning can only occur during certain windows of time in an animal's life.
What is "imprinting"?
200
Birds using earth's magnetic field to navigate their migratory paths.
What is innate?
300
Male birds often have bright plumage which makes them more vulnerable to predators. What then, is the adaptave advantage of their bright colors?
What is "sexual attraction"?
300
Young ducklings follow their mother because of this event which occurs after hatching.
What is imprinting?
300
This is the main advantage for a species being able to learn.
What is survival?
300
Innate behaviors are controlled by these molecules found in their cell nuclei.
What is DNA.
300
When a human approaches an aquarium, the fish move to the water's surface.
What is learned?
400
What behavior in the female members of a bird species results in the evolution of brighter colors or longer feathers in males of the same species?
What is a "mate selection" or "female choice"?
400
Animals instinctively frightened away by a fake owl learn to ignore the owl if it never moves. This learned behavior mixed with instinctual behavior is an example of this.
What is habituation?
400
Ivan Pavlov's experiment that caused a dog to salivate as if it was seeing food when it heard a bell ring is an example of this.
What is classical conditioning?
400
Herding behavior in mammals and schooling of fish help to protect the members of the community from this.
What are predators?
400
A cat comes running into the kitchen when she hears the can-opener in operation.
What is learned?
500
When females of a species are more "choosy" than males in selecting mates, the males of the species must do this.
What is "compete"?
500
Which of the following is least likely to display instinctive behavior?
a. fly
b. earthworm
c. paramecium
d. leech
What is "C" - paramecuim?
500
Tool use by a chimpanze is an example of this type of behavior.
What is "cognitive"?
500
The study of how animals behave in their natural environment.
What is "ethology"?
500
Fixed action pattern behaviors which are performed in exactly the same way every time the behavior is triggered.